In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.